The app I am working on uses the phone's browser so it works just like any web app. The only difference is the UI is formated with rounded buttons and such to make it look like an app. The HTML5 specification includes the ability to save data on the local phone for off line use. I have not experimented with that myself. It seems to me that using a browser still the best way if you have to support multiple devices. Go to this http://jquerymobile.com/ web site to read more.


>Hi James. Thanks for replying
>The Web-app you are developing.... will you be able to run this is a 'disconnected' fashion from each of the various mobile units.
>One probelm we have is that, in a lot of places, connectivity to the internet cannot ne guaranteed, and we need sometying that can be run from 'any' smartphone locally (i.e. without any connection to the internet) , and then the results uploaded or synchronised later.
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>Does a 'Web' app mean it has to be connected , or is using an inernal browser just to run the app. If its the latter, then we should be ok
>Regards,
>Gerard
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>>If your want a bigger audience then one phone operating system then you need to develop a web app. I am working on one now and I am using www.jquerymobile.com. Still in alpha but I expect it to go beta soon. They just announced that the latest build will work with wpm. Of course it will work better when WPM runs IE9.
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>>>I have tested out a silverlight web app and found that it cannot be run ,for instance, from an iphone
>>>Does naybody know if the same is the case for a WPF based Web app ?
>>>i.e. is here any point in developing a WPF app if it is going to be accessed via the web from an IPhone ?
>>>TIA
>>>Gerard